Catch The Rainbow Guitar Tab

Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow Tabs:

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Catch the rainbow                                 

                                                                        Rainbow
Electric Guitar 1
                                                          
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture tim Lead Player	#1 by tim sears at Jul 6, 2006 at 6:13 AM EST
	The live version of this song is 4 times as amazing as the original, anybody who hasnt got the live version of this song and loves the original get it fast

No Picture ben Lead Player	#2 by ben Tee at Sep 26, 2006 at 6:38 PM EST
	What does the phrase "come the dawn" mean?

No Picture Nikola Rhythm Player	#3 by Nikola Supukovic at Oct 12, 2006 at 1:16 AM EST
	I don't have an idea about what does this song mean....but I think it's about high hopes in somethings .... : we believed we'd catch the rainbow but finally, life isn't that easy : life's a chains made with steel.. GREAT GREAT song, I have the live one it's like 10 minutes long and Ritchie Blackmore (the guitarist) plays a 3 minute solo, great song.

No Picture Eric Average	#4 by Eric Phillips at Nov 13, 2006 at 5:01 AM EST
	I think that the Catch the Rainbow lyrics may be about high hopes, as dylanrocks has said, but high hopes gone unfulfilled. I really like this song very much. It's so calm compared to their other hard rockin' songs. The group's ability to create both types of songs successfully is what makes them so awesome.

No Picture Master Shaïtan Wanna Be	#5 by Master Shaïtan at Jan 17, 2007 at 12:35 PM EST
	WOW iv never herd this song but the lyrics are kinda cool i just clicked on it cause of the word "rainbow" ( "GaY PrIDe") lol so sumone tell me what this song means!

No Picture Eric Average	#6 by Eric at Apr 20, 2007 at 10:54 AM EST
	I think many of you are very close, and have found very valid meanings in this song. Which is just as good as what I am to present. While I cannot give a source, I remember an interview where Ronnie James Dio explained the meaning behind the song. His inspiration for it was a princess and a stableboy falling in love, which fits perfect with the lines: "A bed of straw Against the lace" After all, a straw bed is something a poor person would have been sleeping on, while lace is a fabric only rich people could afford in any historical age. As you can see from the chorus, they would eventually be torn apart by the different worlds they belonged to. Then again, and I cannot stress this enough, there is not enough information in the song lyrics to get what the real story is, so like with many of his songs, Ronnie wanted us to find our own meaning in it. Therefore, the opinions presented here are just as valid as what Ronnie originally came up with.